perl and text-delim database

[Ben Luey <lueyb@gridley.ACNS.Carleton.edu>]

I've got I think a simple perl question:

I've got a mailing list in a text-delim format:

name1<tab>address1<tab>stuff1
name2<tab>address2<tab>stuff2
...


How can I get that into an array or something in perl, so I can control
each field?

Right now I have 

open(list, "file"){
@list = <list>

but I don't know how to manipulate each field in a row

ex:

print (@list[1]);

prints the 2nd line, but how I can print out the 2nd field of the second
line?


Any links to good web-sites with tutorials would be great.

Thanks,

Ben